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San Francisco cellular agriculture company Wildtype is the latest company to get FDA approval for its lab-grown salmon
Only three other companies have gotten the stamp of approval to sell cultivated salmon so far.
The company made waves in the food and culinary sectors after announcing that its hero product, saku salmon, got approved in “a thorough pre-market safety consultation.”
Curious people can find the fish on the menu at Portland, Oregon, restaurant Kann — a James Beard award-winning Haitian spot by chef Gregory Gourdet.
For June, the cultured salmon will only grace the menu every Thursday night, but in July, it is slated to be a nightly offering.
“Our saku is sushi-grade and best served raw in dishes like sushi, crudo, and ceviche,” Wildtype explains on its website.
“We made it for world-class chefs who seek out the distinct flavor and freshness of raw seafood.”
And according to the FDA, they view lab-grown salmon “as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods,” the FDA wrote in its public response letter.
The FDA’s only gripe with Wildtype’s cultivated salmon so far is that the company refers to it as ‘cultured salmon cell material’ — which is not “our recommendation of that term as an appropriate common or usual name for declaring the substance in accordance with FDA’s labeling requirements,” the agency said.
Once fully matured and harvested, the living “salmon cells” are fused with plant-based ingredients that imitate the texture and appearance of true salmon.